Examiner Says Levy May Have Been Strangled
Chief Medical Examiner Jonathan L. Arden said he believes Chandra Levy may have been strangled, though he doesn’t have conclusive evidence to rule it as the cause of death.
Levy’s skeletal remains, discovered May 22 in Rock Creek Park, showed damage to her hyoid, a small U-shaped bone in the upper neck, he said.
Law enforcement officials suspect that Levy, a former Washington intern from Modesto, Calif., who disappeared in May 2001, was sexually assaulted, because her leggings were discovered turned inside out, with each leg knotted.
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